{"id":1294,"date":"2009-11-25T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/11\/stem-the-tide.html"},"modified":"2009-11-25T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T12:35:00","slug":"stem-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/11\/stem-tide.html","title":{"rendered":"STEM the Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/11\/23\/obama-kicks-off-massive-science-education-effort\/\">kicked off a program this week<\/a> to &#8220;energize and excite America\u2019s students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.&#8221;  His stated goal is to show young people how cool science can be.  Further, two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/article\/20091124\/BUSINESS\/911240304\/1001\">local CEO&#8217;s were tapped<\/a> to be on the team of five business and thought leaders to lead the $260 million program.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, this is great news.  I&#8217;m all in favor of anything that gets our kids engaged in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) careers.  As I&#8217;ve argued before, I think this is essential to the economic success of America moving forward.  What I can&#8217;t tell from any of the news is how this program really helps.  I can&#8217;t see that Antonio Perez or even Sally Ride doing public service announcements about why science is cool will convince a lot of kids to give up their plans of being a rock star, a fireman, or a fashion model to take up physics.  And for $260 million, I think about all you&#8217;re going to get is an ad campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the sentiment is in the right place.  I&#8217;m just skeptical the execution will make a difference.  But I&#8217;m still hoping.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama kicked off a program this week to &#8220;energize and excite America\u2019s students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.&#8221; His<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/11\/stem-tide.html\" title=\"Read STEM the Tide\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}